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Psychedelic by Jerry Covington. Jerry started building custom motorcycles in the early seventies and founded Covingtons Customs in Woodward, Oklahoma, in 1993.. Covington became well known in the motorcycle industry as one of the top custom builders for his clean designs and high quality custom motorcycles, and appeared in numerous television shows including the Discovery Channel's Biker Build ...
The World Championship of Custom Bike Building is a competition held annually by American Motorcycle Dealer (AMD) magazine. The first competition was held in 2004 as an extension of the AMD ProShow custom engineering competition held in Europe in conjunction with Custom Chrome since 2002, which by some was already unofficially acknowledged as a European championship [1] The top three finishers ...
Actor, motorcycle customizer William David Lane (born February 6, 1970, in Miami, Florida ) is an American builder of custom motorcycles , owner of Choppers Inc. in Melbourne, Florida , known for his 2009 conviction and imprisonment in Florida for a drunk-driving incident in 2006, where Lane's driving caused the death of another biker/moped [ 1 ]
A customized Yamaha with a nitrous oxide tank A custom motorcycle in the United Kingdom 1977 Honda CB550 built by Lossa Engineering. A custom motorcycle is a motorcycle with stylistic and/or structural changes to the 'standard' mass-produced machine offered by major manufacturers. Custom motorcycles might be unique, or built in limited quantities.
The millennium began with the cable TV network The Discovery Channel creating a number of television shows around several custom bike builders who built choppers. The first, the 2000 special Motorcycle Mania, followed builder Jesse James of Long Beach, California, and is credited with creating "a new genre of reality TV" around choppers. [13]
From 1977 to 1982, Chicano Roy was the first Hispanic motorcycle chopper builder to conquer the custom motorcycle magazine world, with his right-hand man, and youngest brother of 10, David Garcia. These magazines included Easyrider, Big Bike, Street Chopper, Custom Bike, Chopper, Iron Horse and others.
I don't know whether success or failure is awaiting me in the future. Can custom bikes become art? Maybe we'll know in 10 years' time." Along with fellow bike builders Jesse James, Ian Barry and Billy Lane, Kimura was among the first custom bike builders to receive an invitation to the Legend of the Motorcycle - Concours d'Elegance exhibition. [9]
Paul John Teutul (born May 1, 1949) is the founder of Orange County Choppers, a manufacturer of custom motorcycles and the focus of the reality television series American Chopper. He first appeared on the show with his sons Paul Jr. and Michael. In 2013, his new show Orange County Choppers premiered on CMT. [1]